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The Walking Dead left us hanging at the end of November, as Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and his group were being overrun by zombies. Now, as senior writer Rob Moynihan details in this week’s issue, things are about to get even more brutal. The second half of Season 6 begins with a bloody battle and, later this spring, the introduction of the notorious comic book nasty Negan. But while things may seem dark on camera, behind the scenes The Walking Dead is anything but grim. “Andy Lincoln gave me a big bear hug as he was covered head to toe in sticky fake blood,” Rob says of his most recent trip to the Georgia set. “When we broke for lunch around 2am, everyone sang “Happy Birthday” to Ross Marquand [Aaron]. It’s…

@TVGMLogan THERE’S A LONG-HELD belief in the soap world that a happily married couple is a boring couple. Can General Hospital’s William deVry and Nancy Lee Grahn escape that fate? Their crazy-popular characters—reformed mobster Julian Jerome and legal eagle Alexis Davis—will hit the chapel of love February 19. When we grilled you two in 2014—in the early stages of Julexis fever—you were adamant that marriage would be the kiss of death. And now? Grahn: [Laughs] We were wrong! DeVry: So wrong! I thought it was a soap rule that you had to destroy happy couples to keep the audience interested. There’s always some dark dynamic. Grahn: As soon as you say “I do,” an old girlfriend or a supposedly dead wife shows up and suddenly it’s “Divorce!” DeVry: But here…

“These last episodes are extremely character-driven. But obviously we are still going to have our twists and turns— there is a huge mystery to unravel” —Executive Producer Pete Nowalk IT’S LATE AFTERNOON on the Hollywood set of How to Get Away With Murder, and Annalise Keating (Viola Davis) isn’t quite herself. For one thing, she’s talking to her dead husband. For another, the mercurial attorney is clad in a voluminous silk top and cardigan rather than a trademark power suit, and she’s sporting long braids, which have been gathered into a loose knot. “Hungry?” asks Sam Keating (Tom Verica), who looks to be very much alive as he tenderly greets his wife in their kitchen, where he’s prepared her a hearty breakfast. But Annalise—showing no trace of the desperate woman…

Warning: Ask Cuba Gooding Jr. about making a comeback in FX’s The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, and he will start singing LL Cool J’s “Mama Said Knock You Out.” (“ ‘Don’t call it a comeback! I’ve been here for years!’ Remember that song?” he asks.) Whether Gooding likes it or not, comeback is a word he will be hearing a lot in the weeks ahead, thanks to his turn as fallen football icon Simpson. He plays opposite John Travolta (as defense lawyer Robert Shapiro) and Sarah Paulson (as L.A. prosecutor Marcia Clark) in the 10-episode drama, produced by Ryan Murphy (American Horror Story). Since word is truly that good, the 48-year-old actor may be returning to the heights of his Academy Award–winning performance as brash wide receiver…

FRIDAY, FEB. 12 Season premiere, 8/7c, CBS The Amazing Race is getting social. The CBS competition series kicks off its 28th season with 11 teams of two, all composed of social-media influencers who have accrued millions of followers across platforms like YouTube, Instagram and Vine. “But take away the fact that millions of people watch them,” host Phil Keoghan insists about these intrepid contestants. “They’re just interesting people, period.” One high-profile duo: best friends and YouTube stars Korey Kuhl and Tyler Oakley. Oakley alone has more than 7.9 million subscribers on the video-streaming site. “Of all our racers, I thought he might be affected by being the most famous,” Keoghan says. “But he is really what you see online: a curious, fun and lovable guy.” This season also features three…

CHEERS TO TELENOVELA for losing nothing in translation. You don’t need to speak Spanish or even “soap opera” to understand that Eva Longoria as a desperately needy diva dealing with hilarious costars, hurricanes and overheated TV rivals es muy fabuloso. CHEERS TOTHE 100 for being a perfect 10. Daring enough to off key characters, sly enough to use postapocalyptic tribes as a timely political allegory and touting a cast hot enough to be on The CW, the primo sci-fi drama launched Season 3 with Clarke (Eliza Taylor) on the run and us all-in for the ride. 87% OF FAC E BOOK FA N S CHEER IT CHEERS TO JOSH HOLLOWAY’S ALIEN-INVASION DRAMA COLONY for keeping viewers happily lost. “So happy to see Josh again. I know [executive producer] Carlton Cuse…

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Mozart in the Jungle If your first thought was “Mozart What?” when Amazon’s Mozart in the Jungle unexpectedly won two major Golden Globe awards (best comedy series and lead comedy actor for Gael García Bernal), you surely weren’t alone. For two years, Amazon has sneaked this sexy, sophisticated romp about a New York symphony orchestra into its streaming lineup during the holidays—in 2015, the night before New Year’s Eve—rendering it a well-kept secret. Thanks to the Globes, it’s now deservedly on more people’s radar. What viewers will discover, as Mozart plays variations on an inspired theme of artistic temperament and passion, is a show that’s intoxicating in its originality and seductive charm. That’s especially true any time its central character, the mercurial celebrity conductor Rodrigo (an impishly adorable García Bernal),…

This season on Fresh Off the Boat—ABC’s sitcom about an Asian-American family living in 1990s Orlando—we’ve already seen the Huang clan do Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. But that was just the warm-up for the biggest celebration of all. “We always wanted to do a Chinese New Year episode,” says executive producer Nahnatchka Khan of the installment, airing February 2. “It means so much to so many people, and it’s never really been on American TV before!” In honor of the occasion, East will meet West—literally— at Cattleman’s Ranch, the steakhouse owned by patriarch Louis (Randall Park). The set was transformed with vibrant decorations, including scores of red paper lanterns (“We used 88, a very auspicious number,” jokes production designer Liz Kay), and a traditional Chinese dance troupe was brought in…

In an early scene in ABC’s two-part movie Madoff, the Wall Street “magician” enters his normally bustling work floor and finds it disquietingly empty. Then lights flash on and cheers erupt as the Salt-N-Pepa/En Vogue jam “Whatta Man” blasts in the background. The irony of a song repeating the mantra “what a mighty good man” scoring the scene couldn’t be more profound: The honoree is none other than Bernard L. Madoff. “I’d never have to sell myself again. The title would do it for me,” says the main character and unreliable narrator (Richard Dreyfuss), who perpetrated history’s largest Ponzi scheme and manipulated family, friends and celebs—including Steven Spielberg and Kevin Bacon—into handing him sums of money adding up to somewhere around $20 billion. (The $50-plus billion figure bandied about was…

FEBRUARY 1, 2016 | PUZZLE #1273 ACROSS 1 A broadcast net 4 Happily ____ After 8 Downey of The Bible 12 Peggy of Grace Under Fire 13 Zachary of Telenovela 14 ____ Stevens 15 Neighboring ranch owner on The Ponderosa (2 wds.) 18 Nivens of Mary Tyler Moore (2 wds.) 19 Emilia of Game of Thrones 20 Lamb Chop sound 21 Clapping tool 22 A Year in the ____ 25 Alyssa Milano plays one of three on Charmed 26 A League of Their ____ 29 Dined at Jack’s Place 30 Bridge of ____ 32 Stamped addressed envelope, for short 33 Common conjunction 34 ____ and Jinx 35 Adam of Batman 36 Ellen of Beauty and the Beast 38 Caitlin’s ____ 40 Country music singersongwriter Randy 42 Mickey Spillane detective 46 Switched at Birth neighborhood (2 wds.)…

WELCOME TO THE BATTLE OF ALEXANDRIA. That’s what The Walking Dead star Andrew Lincoln has dubbed this night in late August on the Senoia, Georgia, set of AMC’s zombie blockbuster. It’s 1:30 in the morning, and Lincoln— along with the majority of the series’ main players and about 180 “walker” extras—is pacing in the middle of a bright red blood-soaked street with a battle-ax in hand. Feral screams and grunts pierce the night’s warm, heavy air as Lincoln psychs himself up for hours of hand-to-hand combat between the residents of the Alexandria Safe-Zone and the walker horde that has breached the walls and infested the residential community. “As if you didn’t have enough to do tonight, do you want two more kills?” stunt coordinator Monty L. Simons asks Lincoln, who…

SUNDAY, FEB. 7 6/5c, CBS CBS comes full circle with Super Bowl 50. The Eye Network, which broadcast the first Super Bowl in 1967 (along with NBC), introduces the EyeVision 360 replay system to television’s biggest audience of the year. Thanks to 36 cameras strung around Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, “you can freeze the action and spin around from pretty much any angle and see the blocking, what the quarterback saw, what the receivers saw,” says Sean McManus, CBS Sports chairman. “It’s an excellent way to break down a specific play and see why it worked and why it didn’t.” Cameras on the goal line pylons, used to great effect in recent college football championship games, also make their Super Bowl debut—with an added enhancement. “We have audio…